Friday, April 6, 2012

Timers in Node.js

You can use the JavaScript timers, such as setTimeout(), clearTimeout(), setInterval(),clearInterval() in your
node apps. All of the timer functions are globals. You do not need to require() this module in
order to use them.

To schedule the repeated
execution of callback
every delay milliseconds you can use the setInterval() method. The setInterval returns an intervalId which can be
later used to clear the interval execution with the clearInterval() method.

Similary to schedule
execution of a one-time callback
after delay milliseconds use the setTimeout()
method. Read more...